Opinion

Sense and Nonsense: One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish; for me, it's no fish

April 23, 2013

By Lynda Hollenbeck
 
When Ed and I married, I had never been fishing. Not once.
That sounds weird to a lot of people, but it never bothered me.
Plainly speaking, I wasn't interested.
My brother-in-law, George, who's obsessed with the sport, would consider this grounds for commitment to a rubber room. But George, the psychologist/author, long ago elevated fishing to a religious experience. He has fished in many other lands, including a recent trip to Argentina, after which I teased him about trying to catch fish that speak with a Spanish accent.

Sense and Nonsense: Don't panic; police alerted to bad habits

April 15, 2013

By Lynda Hollenbeck

Oral hygiene is rarely high on the list for children, particularly the male kind.
Most little girls, who are more fastidious by nature, don't object to a regular tooth-brushing routine. But a boy child can be another matter altogether.
Little boys and dirt tend to go hand in hand anyway. And the ones I raised were always so eager to get to their next activity that they gladly would have skipped toothbrush time altogether.
A friend who takes an active role in her grandchildren's lives recently shared a tooth-brushiing moment.

Aging pipelines might fuel oil sands debate

April 11, 2013

By Steve Boggs

The rupture in Exxon Mobil’s Pegasus pipeline near Mayflower last week has touched off numerous debates about the present state of America’s aging pipeline system. The pipeline that spilled 12,000 gallons of Canadian oil was originally laid in the 1940s, and its soundness 70 years later should be called into question.

Sense and Nonsense: A day of rebirth and freedom from shoe bondage

April 1, 2013

By Lynda Hollenbeck

Today is Easter Sunday, a milestone for those of us who grew up in the church.
By "church," I don't mean the little Cumberland Presbyterian body that's a big part of my life and where I play the piano every Sunday. I mean the church at large, not any particular denomination.
Attendance in most congregations swells on this holiest of days, which is great. Better to go one day out of the year than none, though I've never understood why so many avoid corporate worship most of the other Sundays of the year.